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My heart says Seattle. My heartburn says New England. My heart says Seattle will win Sunday's Super Bowl, because it's fun and fresh and plays football with an old-fashioned snarl. My heartburn says New England, because it's bland and repressive and still plays football with an old-fashioned snarl. My heart says Seattle, because Pete Carroll is a healthier and much more positive role model for football coaches to follow than the publicly dismissive, openly dictatorial Bill Belichick. My heartburn says New England, because Belichick's mind had two weeks to arrange defensive chess pieces against a Seattle offense with pedestrian receivers and the power running of...

Just when you thought the Dolphins wouldn't miss run-stuffing, space-eating defensive tackle Paul Soliai, serious problems with the run defense have surfaced.
And now it seems Soliai, the former Pro Bowl selection who went to Atlanta in free agency,...

Coach Joe Philbin arrived at the Dolphins' practice facility at 5:50 a.m. Monday. As he does each week, Philbin watched the film of his team, this time of its lackluster performance Sunday that led to an embarrassing 41-13 loss to the Patriots.
Philbin...

Here's a breakdown of all the things I THINK I know heading into Tuesday's 4 p.m. start to the 2014 NFL season, which kicks off with the start of free agency.
1. All the big name players haven't been released YET. The Steelers, Panthers and Cowboys still...

When the Dolphins really needed their run defense last season, it let them down.
The New York Jets, in the second-to-last game of the season, plowed the Dolphins for 152 yards on 42 carries in their 19-0 victory. The Buffalo Bills, in the season...

CORAL GABLES — Two former Hurricanes heard their name called on the third and final day of the NFL draft.
Cornerback Brandon McGee went to the St. Louis Rams in the fifth round before running back Mike James went to the Tampa Bay Bucs in the sixth round....

The New England Patriots have been the NFL's best team during this era of football.
Considering how many AFC Conference Championships, and Super Bowls Bill Belichick's team has won and appeared in since 2001, this can not be debated.
However, our own...

Having posted convincing victories over Cincinnati and Denver, the Indianapolis Colts unquestionably belong in the AFC championship game.
In a sense, though, the Colts are party crashers.
Andrew Luck is the only remaining quarterback without a Super...

There are XLIX different sentimental journeys to football's ultimate game, lifetime trips fueled with pride and perseverance by players who arrive with humility and honor.
This is not one of them.
This is the story of LeGarrette Blount, the New...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — It took one half for Chris Matthews to go from NFL unknown to a name casual football fans know. That is what the Super Bowl stage can do.
The wide receiver caught his first pass of the season in the second quarter of Super Bowl XLIX...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Amazingly, after Week 4 the idea was introduced that the Patriots had a budding quarterback controversy and that the franchise's long run of success might be ending.
The Patriots had been thumped by the Dolphins and Chiefs and, at...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell will spend 15 months on probation in a first-offender's program stemming from his arrest on marijuana possession and DUI charges with former teammate LeGarrette Blount. Bell's driver's...

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell was admitted into a court program Friday morning that, if completed successfully, will lead to the marijuana charges filed against him last summer being dismissed. Bell, 22, was admitted into the...

Even with Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots' players in the room Sunday night, Jimmy Fallon was the only MVP for hundreds of people in a Phoenix theater. The Patriots' Brandon LaFell, Danny Amendola and LeGarrette Blount were just a few of the...

Another big comeback for the New England Patriots. And, finally, another championship. A superstar quarterback who attacks adversity like an overmatched cornerback erased a 10-point deficit. Then an undrafted rookie from an unheralded school preserved...

GLENDALE, Ariz. If it was the most stunning win in Seattle history that got them to the Super Bowl, it's the most shocking loss in Seattle history that cost them the game. A yard away from a second straight Super Bowl title, Russell Wilson threw one...

The Seattle Seahawks were one yard away from their second consecutive Super Bowl victory.
One yard away from talks of dynasties and answering questions about whether they could do it a third time, but the only "one" that matters ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — New information on the NFL's investigation into the Patriots use of underinflated footballs surfaced just hours before the team kicked off against the Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX.
NFL Media's Ian Rapoport, citing multiple sources,...

Life is good for LeGarrette Blount.
Just two days before the New England Patriots running back takes part in Super Bowl XLIX, prosecutors dropped a marijuana charge against him Friday following his completion of 50 hours of community service.
It's as if...